Connect to Science

 Discovery Channel.com:  Discovery School

• Content Resources, Webliography, A homework help page
• Copyright 2001 discovery.com
• The purpose of this site is to enhance students', parents', and teachers' learning.
• This site offers many things to parents, teachers, and students.  For students it offers a homework help web page, a library of resources, and links to web sites that provide information for projects.  For teachers it offers a school store, a library of resources, teaching tools, and lesson plans.  For the interested parent this site offers many articles on effect parenting and hot topics in the education world.  Discovery.com also offers the user with an assortment of clipart.
• Since it offers so much for the user, which being a teacher, student, or parent, this site was very useful.  The creator of this site is the Discovery Channel, which a very credible resource.  The information on this web site is up-to-date (2001) and accurate.

Education World:  Science Center

• Education world is a specialized search tool
• Copyright 2000 by Education World, Inc.
• The purpose of this site is to update teachers on current events and provide them with curriculum resources.
• The Science Center is part of Education World.  This is a comprehensive web site that includes science lesson plans, links to science resources, curriculum articles, monthly site reviews about the best educational sites on the Internet, and a safe search engine.  The search engine searches over 500,000 reliable web resources.  The lesson plans, reviews about educational web sites, and current articles would be useful to teachers.  Students would find the resource links very useful in doing projects, homework, etc.  Current articles in this site would keep up to date about the current science curriculum.
• The creators of Education World are credible professionals that are related to education by being in education associations, etc.  The articles and information on this site is up-to-date.  Education World is comprehensive but it is very easy to navigate.  There is a table of contents along the side of the web pages that enables the user to see the contents of Education World.

Summer Research Program for NYC Science Teachers

• Webliography
• Columbia University
• The purpose of this site is to offer many links for teachers of science.
• This web site offers teachers with a comprehensive list of links in the subject of Science.  The links are listed alphabetically and the site includes a description of link.  This site offers full resources, bibliographies, books on-line, homework helpers, lesson plans, television programs information, and other great resources.  Teachers can use this to find many resources to enrich their teaching.  Students can also use this when researching for projects.
• This site was created by Columbia University, which appears to be a credible resource.  Since it was last updated September 27,2000, some of the links no longer work.  Because this page is simply a list of links, it is easy to navigate.  Despite these problems, this is a very useful resource for teachers due to its comprehensiveness.

Howard Hughs Medical Institute:  Cool Science for Curious Kids

• Content Resources
• Supported by HHMI’s Precollege and Public Science Education Program; Copyright 2001 Howard Hughs Medical Institute
• The purpose of this site is to help students learn more about science.
• There are many different activities for students to do on this site.  Each link in "Cool Science for Curious Kids" takes the students to some different and interesting activities.  Parents can also benefit from the "Note to Parents" link.  This tells the parents what their child will be doing in these activities.
• This web site is a very interesting and helpful site for students.  The different activities that are on this site helps students engage in hands-on ideas.  The students are able to print out certain activities and do them or they can just learn while on the computer.  The creator of this site is the Howard Hughs Medical Institute, a very credible source.  The site was very easy to navigate.  The information on this site is accurate and up-to-date.  This site is a great site for kids.

Awesome Library:  Science

• Webliography
• Copyright © 1996-2001 EDI and Dr. R. Jerry Adams
• The purpose of this site is to provide teachers, parents, and students with many reliable resources.
• Awesome Library provides teachers, students, and parents with a massive number of links to good educational sites.  The user can choose a topic/subtopic under science that he/she is interested in finding information about.  Awesome Library then lists resources such as articles, virtual field trips, lesson plans, worksheets, discussions, and many more, about that topic.  The user can also just type a keyword or set of words into the search area and the library provides her/him with lots of information on that topic.  This web site is useful to teachers, parents, and students.  The user can actually choose to look at content that is aimed specifically for parents, students, or teachers.  Students will find the many resources useful for completing assignments.  The lesson plans and teaching guides are especially helpful to teachers.  Parents can become updated on information that their children are learning in school to help them become involved in their child’s schooling.
• The links that this site provides must meet certain standards.  They must be child-safe, useful for teachers, students, parents, or librarians, be actual documents, projects, pictures, or discussion groups, be current, load quickly, have only a small percentage of "dead" links, and be the best version available.  Dr. R. Jerry Adams began this web site.  It is sponsored by the US Department of Education, and due to being ".org" is nonprofit.  This site has gained much recognition including being listed as one of the "Best Bets in Education" for USA TODAY and being recommended for researching by public libraries.  The site is extremely extensive, having a large number of science resources for many different topics.  This site is also easy to navigate, as it is clearly laid out for the viewer in hierarchy of categories. The site displays the steps the user has taken to get where he/she is and links to go back.  For example:  Here: Home > Classroom > Science > Astronomy.